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Item title: Gas warfare references in Japanese documents
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Location:Australian War Memorial (AWM55 12/22)
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AJRP module: Australian War Memorial official records
AJRP series: Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications
AJRP sub-series: ATIS research reports
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Institution: Australian War Memorial
Call number: AWM55 12/22
Inst. series: AWM55
Inst. sub-series: AWM55 12/-
Item: RR-41
Item qualities
Quantity / desc: 2 pages
Access: Open
Item type: Unpublished, Official
Category: Information report
Item content
Creation date (d/m/y): 22/9/1943
Conflict code: Pacific War (1941-1945)
Keywords:PRISONERS OF WAR, CHEMICAL WARFARE, BOMBS, TECHNICAL MANUALS, ANTI-GAS PRECAUTIONS
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Languages: English
Area:Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands)
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Content: This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) research report on references to gas warfare in Japanese documents. The enquiry was received on 22 September 1943 and an answer despatched on 26 September 1943. This enquiry was in response to a Japanese diary entry for 13 May 1943 (Current Translation no. 80, 8 September 1943) which claimed that an Allied bomber had dropped gas bombs. The research report explained that the writer of the diary was captured and interrogated (Interrogation Report no. 164 A) and confirmed that the intended meaning of "gas bomb" was of a poison or chemical bomb. The report also cites a manual entitled "Provisional manual of gas protection" issued on 10 March 1927, which defined "gasu" (the Japanese translation for gas) as a "general terminology for a chemical substance either gas, liquid or solid used with the objective of injuring men and animals (except those intended to be used as gun powder, explosives, flame or simply as smoke), also a gas harmful to men and animals produced when carrying on firing under cover".
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